A call for a “surge” in jobs and prosperity in Iraq, whose rising economy has gone unheralded. By John B. Taylor.

Western Europe failed to stop Germany seven decades ago. Will we fail to stop Iran today? By Thomas Sowell.

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Technology and terrorism have changed. Laws on intercepts need to change, too. By Bruce Berkowitz.

Milton Friedman wanted the government to spend taxpayers’ money just as the taxpayers themselves wished. Here’s a reform that would ensure the government did just that. By Robert Leeson.

High schoolers need the liberal arts, not just the technical ones. By Chester E. Finn Jr. and Diane Ravitch.

Why corn-based ethanol isn’t the solution. By Henry I. Miller and Colin A. Carter.

Why conservatives should embrace deliberative democracy. By David Davenport.

As it does every four years, California is once again struggling to ensure that its presidential primary will matter. Good luck. By Bill Whalen.

Why Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s political honeymoon ended almost before it began. By Gerald A. Dorfman.

Vladimir Putin. We may not know what he’s thinking, but we know only too much about his methods. By Robert Service.

The moral and spiritual malaise of a great nation. By David Satter.

A pioneer of macroeconomics who is still covering new ground. By Prakash Loungani.

Shelby Steele on a black presidential candidate—and what his campaign says about the country.

The Hoover senior fellow and groundbreaking economist is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

The great famine certainly demonstrated Stalin's cruelty, but was it genocide? By Michael Ellman.